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Arrested students last night charged that Cambridge police exercised "outrageous mishandling" in the three-hour fracas that turned Harvard Square into an early-evening battlefield. The allegations of more than a dozen undergraduates were supported by additional scores of bystanders...
...count" climbed again to the old rate of 90 or 100 flies per square yard. Last week the foundation sadly announced that the fly had won over man, and then withdrew from the battlefield...
Secondly, on grounds of artistry and originality I'll have to plead de gustibus--I thought "Birth of a Nation" was a lousy movie; crude, childish, violent, and farcical in its most "dramatic" moments. Sure it has Griffith's panning technique and a couple of great battlefield scenes, but why not cut these out and show them as slides? Or go see "The Red Badge of Courage," which is about fifty times as good. Filling in the lacunae of a few cinema snobs does not justify the risk of vilifying a race, or pandering to prejudices that are already...
When the truce talks got under way last July, the U.N. knew what brought the Reds to the conference table: they were suffering heavy losses on the battlefield and they faced the prospect of defeat. U.N. spokesmen said insistently that only by continued pressure could the Reds be brought to sign an armistice. But U.N. strategists lost sight of that fact...
Since the lull on the battlefield, the Red negotiators have been wholly intractable. The U.N. has no policy except to try to wear down the Reds at the conference table. In the game of waiting, the U.N. is up against the champs. Once, the U.N. had the advantage in Korea; now it has got into a contest in which the advantage is with the enemy...